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Welcome Introduction & Biography Title Listings Mysteries & Detective Stories Three Cases for Mr Campion The China Governess The Mysterious Mr Campion Romances & Adventures Autobiographical Writing as 'Maxwell March' Notes about the Title List Short Story Cross Reference 'Campion' (BBC TV) Bibliography & Links Margery Allingham Discussions on Yahoo! (Remote Link) Credits, Thanks & Mail

The China Governess (Heinemann, 1962) Young Timothy Kinnit appears to have everything: he is heir to the great family fortune of his adoptive guardians, and he is to marry his beautiful fiancée Julia Laurell. All seems to be perfect...until Timothy decides that it is time to trace his real parentage. Abandonned as a baby at the beginning of the Blitz, it appears that the environs of his parentage, the rough and unhealthy Turk Street in Ebbfield, held a number of secrets, including the key to his identity. However, as he begins to search for clues in a twenty years old mystery, he finds that there are some secrets which the past would prefer not to yield. With the aid of Mr Albert Campion, Timothy Kinnit probes not only his beginnings, but the truth behind a century-old mystery, which could have terrible implications for both he and his adoptive family.  BOOKS      Order The China Governess from Amazon.co.uk Another volume of Penguin Classic Crime in the traditional green and cream livery. Lovely, lovely Penguins. AUDIO      Order The China Governess in Audio cassette format from Amazon.co.uk Read by Francis Matthews, star of radio and television. Complete and unabridged.